Muhammad Ali Rushed to the Hospital
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From the Louisville Courier-Journal this morning, seems like he is fine for now...
Louisville-born icon Muhammad Ali is home and doing as well as can be expected after he was hospitalized in Arizona, his longtime close friend, Louisville radio personality John Ramsey, says.
Ramsey’s comments came after Star magazine Friday via RadarOnline.com. reported that Ali had been hospitalized after “after slipping out of consciousness at his Phoenix-area home.”
Ramsey spoke by phone with Ali’s wife, Lonnie, Thursday evening, and said in an interview Friday morning that the three-time heavyweight boxing champion and humanitarian is “home and well, for a person who has had Parkison’s since the 1980s. He may not be going in the direction you or I like, but no one is on alert. That’s the truth.”
Ramsey said the Alis plan to be in Louisville in mid-January for a celebration of the boxing legend’s 70th birthday, which is Jan. 19.
Ramsey said he didn’t have any details of Ali’s hospitalization but he said his wife may have checked him into a hospital because he had congestion. “I don’t think he stayed very long,” Ramsey said.
Jeanie Kahnke, spokeswoman for the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, also said that she had talked with Lonnie Ali by phone Friday morning at her Arizona home and reported that “Muhammad is there, asking for his breakfast. She said he is fine.”
Louisville-born icon Muhammad Ali is home and doing as well as can be expected after he was hospitalized in Arizona, his longtime close friend, Louisville radio personality John Ramsey, says.
Ramsey’s comments came after Star magazine Friday via RadarOnline.com. reported that Ali had been hospitalized after “after slipping out of consciousness at his Phoenix-area home.”
Ramsey spoke by phone with Ali’s wife, Lonnie, Thursday evening, and said in an interview Friday morning that the three-time heavyweight boxing champion and humanitarian is “home and well, for a person who has had Parkison’s since the 1980s. He may not be going in the direction you or I like, but no one is on alert. That’s the truth.”
Ramsey said the Alis plan to be in Louisville in mid-January for a celebration of the boxing legend’s 70th birthday, which is Jan. 19.
Ramsey said he didn’t have any details of Ali’s hospitalization but he said his wife may have checked him into a hospital because he had congestion. “I don’t think he stayed very long,” Ramsey said.
Jeanie Kahnke, spokeswoman for the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, also said that she had talked with Lonnie Ali by phone Friday morning at her Arizona home and reported that “Muhammad is there, asking for his breakfast. She said he is fine.”
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The greatest heavyweight fighter of all time imo. When he was in his prime (Liston and the following 15 years or so) I don't think anyone that has ever lived could beat him except Joe Fraser and I think to this day that fight was thrown by Ali. He was so quick and light on his feet, he literally embarrassed everyone he fought. In the later years he had lost ½ of his speed which kind of made that generation think he wasn't all that good. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee... Some other good Ali quotes here
